Friday, January 24. 2014

REFLECTIONS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST - 2014
by Bernard J. Shapiro
An Editorial for the January Maccabean Online
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies

Since I completed my book, THE BATTLE FOR ERETZ YISRAEL, Jew, G-d and Israel, 1992-2011, I have not written very much. There is a good reason for that and it is a sad one.

It seems, as the French long ago said: " The more things change, the more they stay the same." Frankly, I am getting bored in my old age. I once believed that the rise of Israel took the Jews out of the Ghettos of Europe and the horror of the Holocaust. But it seems that it was easier to take the Jew out of the Ghetto than to take the Ghetto out of the Jew.

Once proud Sabras (native Israelis) now let Arab teenagers throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at them. They are trapped on the roads of the Holy Land, attacked with sniper fire and lynched. The Israeli police, border patrol and Israel Defense Forces let it happen.. Political correctness has run amok.

Jews can not pray on the Temple Mount, their holiest site. It is the site where Abraham, our father, was tested by G-d and proved his willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac as G-d commanded.. Arabs have re-written history and now claim that their was never a Jewish connection to our Holiest Site. They claim that Abraham, Jesus and other Jewish prophets were Moslems. They continue to destroy all traces of our connection to the site and the Israeli government does nothing. I would not tolerate it! I would throw the Waqf off the Temple Mount and replace them with unbiased Jewish police. Jews, Moslems and Christians will, of course be free to worship there.

When a man's fate and his very life hang in the balance, the Globe and Mail has an obligation to do its homework first, instead of recycling old canards and allegations. Contrary to what the Globe and Mail published, here are the facts:

1) JONATHAN POLLARD DID NOT COMMIT TREASON
He was never accused of treason. He was never indicted for treason. He was not charged with spying against the US, only with spying on behalf of Israel.

2) JONATHAN POLLARD DID NOT COMPROMISE US SOURCES AND METHODS
This is an old canard that the CIA trots out for the media with predictable regularity. In fact, Jonathan Pollard never had access to sources-and methods, or codes information . Even though the real culprits, (Aldrich Ames, David Boone and others), who compromised this sensitive information have since been arrested, the CIA has never stopped scapegoating Pollard for their crimes.

3) JONATHAN POLLARD DID NOT HARM US SECURITY
Jonathan Pollard has never been indicted for harming the United States, its agents, its property or its installations. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT WOULD SUPPORT SUCH A CHARGE. The only information that Jonathan Pollard gave over to the Israeli Government was information related to the vital security of the State of Israel - information that the US had legally pledged to share with Israel.